Proc B with @sampassmore.bsky.social! We used simulations to explore the innovation strategies of speed climbers 🧗♀️ Innovation is higher among slower athletes and lower when the population size is larger, and the overall balance of innovation and copying appears to be suboptimal 🔗 bit.ly/499QjZM
Well deserved and so excited for you!!
sounds fascinating! Just wanted to point out that there is no indication on the web of when the workshop is actually taking place (at least from mobile version)
thanks for joining Julia and lovely to see you! Fun fact I watched kpop demon hunter night before the defence 😈
After few flights and 8hrs of canoe ride up the Maniqui river, we met the Tsimane villagers in Bolivian Amazon to understand what they find appealing to hear and see, and how they compare to other parts of the world. @manuelangladatort.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social
Thanks Lennie ☺️
Comparative Musicology Evolution, Universals, and the Science of the World’s Music Patrick E. Savage Senior Research Fellow, School of Psychology, University of Auckland / Waipapa Taumata Rau Associate Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University Contents Prologue: How to read/teach this book ii Epigraphs vi Foreword (Psyche Loui, President of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition) x Foreword (Svanibor Pettan, Past President of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance) xii Acknowledgments xiv Ch. 1. Introduction: Aims, chapter structure, and key definitions 1 Ch. 2. Tutorial: Acoustic comparison within and between societies (and species) 12 Ch. 3. History: The rise and fall and rise of comparative musicology 34 Ch. 4. Universals: Absolute, statistical, and non-universal aspects of music beyond the “universal language” metaphor 72 Ch. 5. Evolution: Cultural and biological evolution of music(ality), language, and animal song 94 Ch. 6. Applications: Copyright, music therapy, language acquisition, cultural heritage, social bonding, AI, and beyond 120 Epilogue: “Many Voices” and the future of qualitative comparative musicology 135 Appendix: Companion audio recordings/code availability statement 139 Index 140
7.5 years after signing the contract, I finally submitted the full manuscript of my book to Oxford University Press!!!
Thanks to Keio's Fukuzawa Fund, it will be published open access. You can already read the submitted version as a preprint at osf.io/b36fm
I hope you all find it useful!
Extremely honoured to be the recipient of the Best Student Paper award at the upcoming ICMPC 2025 in São Paulo, the largest international conference on music cognition and perception. All possible through working with the great team and supervisors.
Link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Open analysis code and data: github.com/harin-git/mu...
Demographic mixing in cities certainly contributes a lot to the musical diversity, especially in megapolis like Paris and Sao Paulo. However, it doesn't entirely explain the rise, so something about the urban interactions and experience itself seems to be at play.
One might then wonder, the heightened diversities in big cities, could that simply have come from there being more of younger people in metropolitans? To account for demographics, we gather an extensive array: from age, education, income to number of Facebook friends and access to music venues.
Additionally we document how this listening radius changes over the course of life. One's radius expands rapidly from the mid-teens, reaches its peak in late-twenties, and then narrows through mid-life and beyond.
Also at the individual level, people living in larger urban areas tend to listen to a broader variety of music themselves (i.e., wider listening radius), expanding their personal musical repertoire.
Size matters! Across all three countries, the larger the city, the more distinct people’s musical tastes were from their neighbours. In other words, there’s less of a single, shared musical taste in big cities.
We measured diversity of music in two ways: (1) how different people’s musical tastes were from their neighbours in the same area, (2) how wide-ranging each individual’s personal music 'listening radius' was. We processed more than 250 million listening logs across France, Brazil, and Germany.
Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social
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Ready to submit my PhD thesis.
After taking this picture I realised that the thesis cover I designed matches the lamp and the sofa in my flat. Definitely some psychological priming going on here!
2. Are Expressions for Music Emotions the Same Across Cultures? arxiv.org/abs/2502.08744
While many studies have relied on predefined set of emotion categories, we propose a systematic pipeline to mine the taxonomy across languages without presumptions of the emotion space.
1. Visual and Auditory Aesthetic Preferences Across Cultures arxiv.org/abs/2502.14439
Do people from different parts of the world find certain shapes, colour combinations, and musical sounds more beautiful? Recruiting 4,835 participants from 10 countries, we try to answer this.
Excited to share two papers tapping into cross-cultural perception of aesthetics and word associations to music emotion across languages. Accepted to be presented at the upcoming CogSci 2025 conference! @mpicbs.bsky.social
Contact ismir2025-music@ismir.net for any inquiries and we will respond promptly.
Serving as a co-chair for ISMIR 2025 in Korea, we are excited to announce call for the music-program! If you have MIR integrated creative music performance in mind to be performed at gorgeous KAIST auditorium, do consider applying.
Submission: ismir2025.ismir.net/call-for-music
Deadline: 30th June
Congrats, a significant leap!
If you wish to join online, please DM me or email me! hlee@cbs.mpg.de
Tomorrow at Cambridge! Visiting the Centre for Music & Science led by @pmcharrison.bsky.social
www.mus.cam.ac.uk/events/under...
Emotional to be returning to Goldsmiths where did my undergrad and masters! @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
A circular dendrogram (phenetic tree) of knots, made using the ggtree package in R. A text-readable and high-resolution PDF-version of the tree is available as a supplementary material.
Pleased to see our work published:
The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance
We analysed knots across 12,000 years and 82 societies.
Time to tie a thread 🧵 about why knots matter.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
😂😂😂 if you ever take up DJing let me know. Would love to also see this in action!
Bringing EEG brain science to Berghain club, Berlin 🧠🎛️ Next weekend I’m teaming up with a Berlin-based DJ/producer “Egregore” to integrate brain oscillations to live ambient music. We will control melodic pulses with neural tempo and use different mind states to alter fragments of sounds!
We constructed emotional arcs from over 6.763 song lyrics […] songs characterized by sorrowful plots and endings receive higher scores than those with more joyful emotional themes.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
